Gender Studies Institute
Activities of the Gender Studies Institute
Events for Spring 2012
GENDER CAFE ~ Pornography: Pixilated Sex, Fragmented Bodies, and Holy Longing
Facilitator: Rob Rhea
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
7:00 – 8.30 P.M., Fosmark Graduate Collegium (directions /campus map)
GENDER CAFE ~ The Iron Lady and Women in Leadership
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
7:00 - 8:30 P.M., Fosmark Graduate Collegium
(Suggestion: View the film, The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep beforehand)
March Annual Lecture Series: Stephanie Coontz, Special Guest Speaker
Thursday, March 22nd. In Northwest Auditorium.
3:00 – 5:00 Graduate Student Research Symposium; Evening Keynote Lecture, 7:00 – 8.30: Stephanie Coontz, "Courting Trouble: The Revolution in Love, Courtship, and Marriage."
Topic: Gender, Marriage and Family Life.
About Stephanie Coontz:
Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She also serves as Co-Chair and Director of Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-profit, nonpartisan association of family researchers and practitioners based at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has been featured in many newspapers such as The New York Times, as well as scholarly journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, and she is frequently interviewed on national television and radio. She is the author of several books, including The Way we Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap; The Way we Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families; Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage, and her most recent book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.
Events for Fall 2011
GENDER CAFE ~ Discussion of the movie The Help: Intersections of Race and Gender
Facilitators: Robynne Healey (History) and Jennifer Adkins (Sociology)
Monday, September 19th, 2011
7:00 – 8.30 P.M., Fosmark Graduate Collegium (directions /campus map)
GENDER CAFE ~ Is Fat a Feminist Issue?: Self Image and Thinness; Special Guest, Zena Sharman, Assistant Director of the
Canadian Institute of Gender and Health, UBC
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
7 – 8.30, Fosmark Graduate Collegium
Special Event with the School of Education: Nel Noddings, Professor Emerita of Child Education at Stanford University
Professor Noddings is an American feminist, educationalist and philosopher best known for her work in philosophy of education, educational theory and ethics of care.
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
7 - 9, Northwest Auditorium
GENDER CAFE ~ Dealing with Depression: TWU’s Wellness Centre Speaks about Gender and Depression
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
7 – 8.30 Fosmark Graduate Collegium
Events for 2010-2011
Gender Cafés (2010-2011 schedule)
Speaker Series
Events for 2009-2010
Gender Cafés (2009-2010 schedule)
Speaker Series
Research Symposium "Gender, Religion, and the Third Wave."
Events for 2008-2009
Gender Cafés
Speaker Series